reddit.com Archives - 17 January 2013, Thursday

I'm trying to popularize a very simple, fair odds, 100% break even P2P game. I don't really see the point betting at SD, Bitbattle or other house-edge games if we can have P2P backed gambling. If we can have a P2P currency, why not P2P fair gambling? Here's how the game works. This is...

So SatoshiDice has the chance of winning along with the payout multiplier if you win. I am playing a 36% chance to win 2.67x payout and haven't won 10 times in a row. According to my math, this has almost a 99% chance of not happening. Today this happened and a 9 lose streak happened ...

the economics are that as more people mine, the mining gets harder, which causes less people to mine. it creates a stable rate of bitcoin generation, which keeps bitcoins at a certain exchange rate. look at it this way, if i made 10 bitcoins, and 10 only, each one would be incredibly ...

At this point, there are a lot of ways and places to learn (including reddit): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page https://bitcointalk.org/ Are you wedded to mining specifically? Currently the world is waiting for ASIC technology to start shipping, in which case the current low-cost ...

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Information on the benefits of bitcoin travels fast and freely. Real vulnerability of the underlying protocol are yet to be seen and even growth issues don't yet pose any significant road blocks to the general upward trend. Not many people even give any fuck to news of services like e...

The main way a majority of people look to get something out of their Bitcoin "investment" is by future investors. This is many people's motivation for getting new Bitcoin adopters. You see people on here all the time saying that you should buy Bitcoin because one day each Bitcoin coul...

Bitcoin exchanges are such good targets that using Rails is just flatly unacceptable. There are what, 3-4 server side Rails exploits per year now? If you run the front of estore or something, that's okay, because your site is not enough of a target that it will be exploited. However, ...

Time zones in Rails can be a little confusing because they add support by modifying existing Ruby core/stdlib classes. Ruby has no time zone support but Rails actually does a good job. The key is to always use Time.zone rather than Time and to be aware of the difference between things...

No, what you need is a descriptive language that gives designers what they want and then hook everything up by calling some stored procedures in a database. CRUD problem solved. :-) Or, maybe what you really need is a tight server code that then is hooked up by a dynamic front-end tha...

An attacker can execute any ruby code he wants including system("unix command"). This effects any rails version for the last 6 years. I've written POCs for Rails 3.x and Rails 2.x on Ruby 1.9.3, Ruby 1.9.2 and Ruby 1.8.7 and there is no reason to believe this wouldn't work on any Ruby...

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I bought lunch for a friend and she agreed to repay in Bitcoins. She has a PhD in Genetic Engineering so she is smart and busy. She doesn't have time for tedious geeky stuff. She wrote: I am working on getting the $100 in bitcoins. But it would cost $121.45. I was going to use it as a...

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I really like Shoes since it's easy to work with and have made a little app I want to try packaging but un fortunatly it crashes every time. Has anyone gotten around this problem or have any alternative suggestions?

Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link. No begging. News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic. No referral links in submissions unless the site has never appeared on /r/Bitcoin .

Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link. No begging. News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic. No referral links in submissions unless the site has never appeared on /r/Bitcoin .

Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link. No begging. News articles that do not contain the word "Bitcoin" are usually off-topic. No referral links in submissions unless the site has never appeared on /r/Bitcoin .

Not tryin to get anything, not tryin to sell anything, just wanna give out some free bitcoins to a few lucky people, spread the holiday cheer around a little, was lucky enough to get a tip on here once, got me started in all this, so trying to pay it back a little. Not much but here y...

"Are you saying that these 'miners' essentially create bitcoins out of thin air (which they then award to themselves)? Or are they simply paid a fee by the transaction initiator?" -- OK, so let me step back a bit and clarify. Bitcoin is a protocol which requires people to "mine" (veri...

It's not that simple. The only fair way to calculate a dollar figure is to convert each transaction at the time it occurs. (Which would require some programming. Maybe BlockChain would like to implement this?) For example, there might've been 1,000 BTC donated when the price was $2. T...

Consider a view of current events which people on the internet generally support, things like "stop internet censorship", "free julian assange", "TSA are thugs", or whatever is currently popular. Then picture a person performing an elaborate protest which attracts media attention. But...

Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring ...

By saying a currency can be viable without an increase in the money supply over time you are rejecting more than 100 years of economics. Good job. I absolutely reject economic theories that are wrong. Sadly, much of mainstream economics is wrong. It is these same people who didn't see...

Resque is pretty heavily used, but development seems to be stalled out at this point. In production, especially on JRuby, sidekiq is much more efficient than running a bunch of resque processes. Also, you don't need to setup a monit/god monitor for each one, you just need to run/monit...

I will try. I'm running mining software right now, in fact. Every bitcoin transaction ever made is recorded in a tamper-resistant account book called the "Block chain". A block is just a set of transactions, whose contents are verified by a cryptographic hash that is hard to find. Sin...

Don't store user passwords in plaintext. In fact, given the nature of what you are doing, try not to store anything in plaintext. Cryptography across the board. I was originally going to suggest that you use some OpenID platform, but nah, what you should have is a table (users) with 4...

I really think the bitcoin tip bot is one of the best things to happen to Bitcoin (and potentially to reddit as well) in a long time. Now if only it could be completely integrated into reddit like so: You transfer any amount of bitcoins into your reddit account, which is then held in ...

"Donate for the Cryptome archive of files from June 1996 to the present" ... with MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, or PAYPAL. No Bitcoin! "Excerpted from Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, by Julian Assange with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jé...

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I'm a fat guy, and I enjoy the holidays, so I want to play Bitcoin Santa this year and give away some BTC. Reply with your Bitcoin address, and I'll randomly (using random.org) send a little something to one person each day over the next 25 days. I won't send anything less than 0.01 B...